Sean exhaled softly.

In the sky, there was a faint golden glow sprinkled, a bit like a golden rain of light, this rain of light covered a huge area, and it was not limited to the Savage Fortress. According to Sean's visual observations, it probably also includes an area of about two kilometers near the Savage Fortress.

This golden rain of light is the monitoring range that Gollum can cover.

In a way, it's a good way to prevent enemy covert infiltration. However, if it is only used for warning, it is obviously not enough, after all, the scope of investigation and surveillance carried out by professional investigators is more than ten miles away from the Wild Fortress.

"We have a lot of things to do." Sean retracted his gaze, then chuckled and said to Cecilia, "The matter in the fortress has been resolved, but I don't know what the situation is on the side of the Millennium Empire at the moment. ”

"The Thousand-Year Covenant Empire will definitely not sit idly by and watch the Barbarian Fortress fall into our hands." Cecilia frowned, "The fall of the Savage Fortress may not reach the Imperial Military Department in a short time, but now that it has been almost half a month, I'm afraid that even if it is blocked by the news of the undead tide, it should be known over there, right?" ”

"Not necessarily." Sean shook his head, then spoke, "If it's true that the Star Tower has a problem and can't monitor the entire territory, then it's likely that the fall of the Savage Fortress hasn't been discovered by them. But ......"

"But then we're in even bigger trouble." Cecilia is so smart, Sean said. She immediately understood what it meant, "If the fortress has been definitively lost." Then they will definitely choose to shrink the defensive line and abandon here for the time being. But if you don't know it's lost......"

"I'm afraid we'll soon be under pressure from the Duke of Nandern." Sean sighed, "The name of 'Deen' of the Millennium Covenant Empire is not a decoration or a false name in the Millennium Covenant Empire, it is synonymous with strength that has truly withstood countless tests, and any Duke of Deen is not a weakling." Or that the weak can't win this laurel, like the Duke of East Germany, Bopocas, who is ranked fourth in this issue's list of famous players, higher than William and Hela. As for the Duke of North Deen, although he mainly guarded against invasions from the Emelian Empire, there were few wars. But if I'm not mistaken, he was ranked 17th in the last edition of the list of famous players, and this issue fell out of the top 20, but I don't think his ability has weakened because of this. ”

"After all, the list of famous generals is also a place that relies on war to speak, if a general rarely has rumors of his achievements and intelligence collection is not accurate, it is indeed difficult to ensure the accuracy of this ranking." Cecilia began, "But I always felt ...... It seems that the god of war is deliberately covering up something. ”

"It's nothing more than the problem caused by the tragedy caused by the first ranking of the famous players, he is seeking inner self-comfort and redemption." Sean's eyes showed an inexplicable look. After a long time, he sighed again, "As for Putius, who is about to take over the position of Duke Nandern, the last time he made a shot was thirty years ago, and the appearance of the list of famous generals was twenty years ago. Therefore, it was not included in the list. …… But I believe that this old duke may have the level to be able to rank in the top 20 or even the top 15. …… I don't know. It could even be a hidden ten. ”

Cecilia muttered quietly, "He's eighty-five years old this year......

"Grow old and get stronger." Sean smiled, "But it's okay." We had a card ready early in the morning, and now we're barely able to use it. ”

"You mean...... Hasas? ”

"Except for him. There is no one else. Sean nodded, "If this guy is lucky, he should have returned to the territory of the Zoandon family by now." ”

"What if you're unlucky?" Cecilia asked.

When William helped Hashas achieve victory, he chose to be a teacher, and Hashas chose to return to his family territory via the Savage Fortress at that time. From the perspective of time, there was no outbreak of the undead at that time, so there was Sean's sentence if everything went well. However, the outbreak of the undead was so sudden that many villages and cities were not prepared at all, which was the main reason why the Millennium Covenant Empire quickly annexed many villages and towns before they could start their countermeasures.

Summoning the Touch of Cruise is no easy task.

Counting this Cruise touch of the Savage Fortress, Sean estimates that in just a few days, the Millennium Covenant Empire should have lost about half a million people.

However, at this time, hearing Cecilia's question, "If you are unlucky", Sean was also a little stunned for a moment.

Immediately, Sean's face became a little painful: "Alas, I thought I could take a short break here, but I didn't expect it...... I've got to get somebody, this guy can't die now, or we're going to have a real good chance of fighting Duke Nandern. ”

"Don't we still have Angel here?" Cecilia was a little confused, and of course the bigger instinct was that she didn't want Sean to leave soon after he arrived at the Savage Fortress.

"Angel's card isn't for here." Sean shook his head, then reached out and stroked Cecilia's head, "The position of the head of the Hashas family has been clarified, and if he dies, then all our previous actions will be in vain." And if he is alive, then he will be the next Duke of Nandern. …… With Angel's card, we'll have a lot of room to maneuver with the Millennium Covenant Empire. ”

At this point, Sean saw that Cecilia seemed to be planning to say something again, so he spoke again: "I know what you want to say. Now that Angel is on our side, if we do encounter the Duke of Nandern, we can also use this to avoid a Terran civil war. Even if there is a real war, in order to open the way to the Barbarian Fortress, the Duke of Nandern will lose a lot, and it will be difficult to win us in a short time, but ...... This prevents us from having secret talks with the Millennium Covenant Empire. ”

"Because...... Imperial face. Right. ”

Not an interrogative sentence, but a declarative sentence.

Sean nodded: "It's a matter of the face of an empire. Once a battle breaks out, then things get very complicated. But if you think about it differently...... I personally ensured the safety of Hashas. And inform the Duke of Nandeen about the specific situation of the Barbarian Fortress now, then we have the possibility of further cooperation with the Millennium Covenant Empire. At that time, through Angel, we will be able to reach some agreements with the Millennium Covenant Empire to take the Savage Fortress. ”

"As a relative price, the Millennial Covenant Empire will retreat its borders, dividing the area and scope covered by the entire Black Earth Land into a borderless land, and the key defensive areas will be concentrated in the rear, which can allow their defense strategies to be better concentrated. There will be more pressure to avoid future outbursts of dead. "Hearing the string song, Sean just said this, and Cecily, who knew Sean's overall strategy, immediately reacted," ...... After all, after the Millennium Covenant Empire shrunk its borders and range of activities, the Barbarian Fortress became the area of human activity closest to the Black Soil Land, so once the death tide broke out, it was us who needed to worry the most, not the Millennium Covenant Empire. ”

"Not to mention the future Void Empire. Even in today's situation, the Wild Land is no longer the backyard of the major empires and principalities, and the importance of the Wild Fortress is naturally not as good as before, and it can even be said that it is a loss-making business. After all, the annual maintenance cost is not low. Therefore, without losing any face, and being able to get some benefits and get rid of the troubles that have been coming from the dead tide for a long time, the only thing that the Millennium Covenant Empire needs to do is to only guard against us. So under normal circumstances, he would not refuse this secret agreement led by Angel. Sean finished Cecilia's words, "And because of the fact that it is hidden." The Millennial Covenant Empire will not guess our layout. ”

"On the surface, it seems that we took the Savage Fortress only to prevent the Millennium Covenant Empire from having direct access to the Savage Lands. It's a state of mutual wariness. But in reality, our real goal is to purify and recover the black earth. Cecilia nodded knowingly, "But then...... They would definitely guess the changes that had taken place in the Savage Lands, and they would even judge the plans of the 'Void Empire' as a result. ”

"The so-called layout is to hide its true purpose." Sean said lightly, "For this, it is necessary to prepare one or even more false purposes, a false information that is not easy for people to obtain, and a clue that is misdirected but indeed enough to make people reason and be convinced." And...... One or more inducing traps. ”

"Therefore, taking the Savage Fortress is the first false purpose." Cecilia thought for a moment, then spoke, "And the secret talks obtained through Angel and the Millennium Covenant Empire are to pass on the false information that 'we want the Savage Fortress', which is not easy for people to obtain. The Millennial Covenant Empire will judge the first temptation trap of "Savage Fortress is very important to us". ”

As Cecilia's thoughts became clearer and clearer, her words became smoother: "With such an important clue, they will be connected to the issue of your protection of Hashas's return, and use the 'Savage Fortress' as a clue to start collecting information in a targeted manner." In this kind of targeted intelligence gathering, all the preparations we have made about the Void Empire's plans cannot be concealed from those who have intentions, and then they will fall into more temptation traps, and as a result, we will be led to this erroneous reasoning logic, and finally come to the conclusion that we want to get rid of the Lane Kingdom and become the eighth empire. ”

"But they would never have imagined that we had already launched the Void Empire project, and now we were just throwing it out as a second false purpose hidden under the first false purpose. …… But since this is the result of their own analysis by their intelligence services, they must be very convinced of this, and as long as we didn't show any purposeful actions against the Black Soil at the beginning, they wouldn't have guessed at all. ”

Sean smiled and nodded, his eyes filled with appreciation.

This strategic chessboard layout was learned by Sean from his former president, who is said to have devised a two-year-long double agent scheme to defeat his rivals. It's just that this is the second time that Sean has used it, and the previous time was to lay the foundation for the Void Empire plan, for which he had to strive to become a lord, but the later Void Empire plan was based on the joint efforts of Neil, Cecilia, William, and Hela, and it did better than Sean originally conceived.

"And there's one more obvious thing about this layout." Sean smiled, then opened his mouth and added, "After the Millennium Covenant Empire discovers this, they will immediately start a new round of fortress construction to guard against the possible ensuing blows, invasions, harassment, and so on after we truly become an empire." This will go a long way in depleting the resources of the Millennial Covenant Empire, thus ensuring that by the time they discover our true purpose, they will be unable to stop and counter it. ”

"But...... This requires us to be strong enough, otherwise the Millennium Covenant Empire can send troops against us and prevent us from becoming an empire. ”

"Any layout requires a certain degree of strength." Sean said, "Whether it's borrowing momentum or your own strength, at least you have to have the ability to compete with other players, otherwise any layout is just a joke." …… That's what Hela has always done, and the only time she's failed is that she didn't expect us to be so tough on the game. ”

"But...... If we want to establish an empire, even if we take advantage of the opportunity of this outbreak of the Death Tide, due to the contract to limit the Peace Council and the Death Thorn will not attack us, there are still so many great powers around the Savage Land......"

"I know." Sean nodded, his face a little solemn, "It's still a little worse if you rely on Kokyre and Alexis alone." After all, the position we are in now is not only an opponent with such a fierce eye as the Millennium Covenant Empire, there are other great kingdoms around, and even the Cinnas Empire, which is not very far away from us, maybe the military god can't catch up, but I'm afraid the super strong is still no problem. ”

"Then with the number of super strong, we may be able to compete with the super powerhouses of the two empires, but if those legendary powerhouses, I am afraid we don't have so many numbers to compete, even if we count the barbarian tribes that have surrendered to Cheng today."

"So this time I went out, and I planned to stop by to visit a hidden powerhouse." Sean said in a deep voice, "Because I don't know much about the specific location and situation, I plan to set off alone, because in the case of William and the others all arrive, it doesn't matter if there is one less of them, but if Rena, you, Kokire and the others are not here, then it is likely that there will be problems." ”

"But......" Cecilia bit her lower lip, still with a hint of hesitation on her face.

"I'll be careful." Sean smiled, "And I promise you, if it can't be violated, I'll give up immediately, and I won't force it too much." (To be continued.) )

PS: I deeply understand the saying that disaster is not a single line.